The period covered in this volume begins with the emergence of anti-slave trade attitudes in Europe, and ends on the eve of European colonial conquest.

Introduction John E. Flint; 1. Egypt and the Nile valley P. M. Holt; 2. Ethiopia and the Horn Sven Rubenson; 3. The Maghrib Douglas Johnson; 4. The nineteenth-century jihads in West Africa M. Hiskett; 5. Freed slave colonies in West Africa Christopher Fyfe; 6. West Africa in the anti-slave trade era J. F. Ade Ajayi, and B. O. Oloruntimehin; 7. The forest and the savanna of Central Africa David Birmingham; 8. East Africa: the expansion of commerce A. C. Unomah, and J. B. Webster; 9. The Nguni outburst J. D. Omer-Cooper; 10. Colonial South Africa and its frontiers J. D. Omer-Cooper; 11. Tradition and change in Madagascar, 1790-1870 Hubert Deschamps; 12. Africans overseas, 1790-1870 John E. Flint, and I. Geiss; 13. Changing European attitudes to Africa Robin Hallett; Bibliographical essays; Bibliography; Index.